Pānīpat, Battles of

Pānīpat, Battles of

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      (1526, 1556, 1761), three military engagements, important in North Indian history, fought at Pānīpat, a level plain suitable for cavalry movements, about 50 miles (80 km) north of Delhi. The first battle (April 21, 1526) was between the Mughal (Mughal Dynasty) chief Bābur, then ruler of Kabul, and Sultan Ibrāhīm Lodī of Delhi. Although the sultan's army outnumbered the Mughals', it was unused to the wheeling tactics of the cavalry and suffered from deep divisions. Ibrāhīm was killed, and his army was defeated. This marked the beginning of the Mughal Empire in India.

      The second battle (Nov. 5, 1556) ended in a victory for Bayram Khān, the guardian of the young Mughal emperor Akbar, over Hemū, the Hindu general of an Afghan claimant who had proclaimed himself independent. It marked the restoration of Mughal power after the expulsion of the emperor Humāyūn by Shēr Shāh the Afghan in 1540.

      The third battle (Jan. 14, 1761) ended the Marāṭhā attempt to succeed the Mughals as rulers of India and marked the virtual end of the Mughal Empire. The Marāṭhā army, under the Bhāo Sahib, uncle of the peshwa (chief minister), was trapped and destroyed by the Afghan chief Aḥmad Shāh Durrānī. This began 40 years of anarchy in northwestern India and cleared the way for later British supremacy.

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